Electric Light & Power articles from July 2004

Electric Light & Power archives from July 2004

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July 1, 2004... With the acquisition of Schlumberger Electricity Inc, Itron, a Spokane, WA-based technology provider in the energy and water industries, has come full circle in offering utilities and other companies better methods for utilizing their energy...

Opportunity minus responsibility equals tragedy.(commentary)(Electric Industry)
July 1, 2004... Just as authorities in Houston closed the cell door on Lea Fastow and a grand jury in that same energy capital brought an indictment against Ken Lay, controversy has swelled around another Texas-based power industry player. Although a...

A strategy that straddles tradition, vision.(profile)(Company Profile)
July 1, 2004... These days our industry, has two camps: One is building walls around a back-to-basics strategy and divesting unregulated businesses; the other continues to herald deregulation and opening markets and chides the first for lacking vision. They...

Consumer opinion tainted by outages.(news)
July 1, 2004... The consumer is the most important element in the reliability equation. When it comes to utilities' relationships with their customers, two truths stand out. * Truth #1: Most consumers don't understand the challenges faced by utilities in...

Benefit of counsel: the perfect is the enemy of the good.(news)
July 1, 2004... As an energy lawyer for more than 2.5 years, I've had many opportunities to participate in the formulation of new energy policies. Recently, I had a chance to revisit one of those policies--the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's...

Consider M&A for your utility's health.(news)
July 1, 2004... This spring, Vermont Electric Coop. closed on its purchase of the sub-transmission and distribution assets of Citizens Communications Co.'s Vermont Electric Division (VED). The $18 million acquisition added 21,000 consumers to the cooperative,...

EEI continues conference tradition.(news)(Edison Electric Institute)
July 1, 2004... Disney World has never seen such power: CEOs, executives and other power industry insiders flooded Walt's Orlando resort in early June to participate in Edison Electric Institute's (EEI) annual convention. This year's forum included discussions...

The Chicago convention of the Edison Electric Institute.(time capsule)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... THE Edison Electric Institute is holding its first convention in Chicago, June 5 to 8, shortly after the opening of the Century of Progress Exposition. The variety and noteworthy character of electrical exhibits which will be on display in the...

How 316(b) could impact your power plant.(news)
July 1, 2004... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released final regulations implementing section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act earlier this year. These Phase II regulations apply to existing power plants that use cooling water intake structures...

Thorough analysis of T&D system required to prevent future blackouts.(news)
July 1, 2004... Much of the initial public discussion about the causes of the August 14 outage has been centered on the grid's transmission capabilities. A number of organizations, including DV2010, a national consortium of electric utility companies formed to...

Marketing buzz: branding your company a regulated environment.(news)(Boulder Energy Group)(Interview)
July 1, 2004... In 1999 I co-wrote a report for E Source on the need for utility companies to invest in a brand strategy in the face of competition. Five years later the industry has yet to deregulate with any great consequence, but does this relegate branding...

Should critical infrastructure jobs stay at home?(news)
July 1, 2004... In a year when jobs and security are of concern to everyone, there are few subjects more controversial than the outsourcing of engineering and service jobs to Third World centers overseas, a phenomenon known as "offshoring." Some suggest the...

How your favorite CEOs manage stress.(news)
July 1, 2004... When Lynda Bader, president of Clear and Effective Communications (Portland, OR), discusses seminar opportunities with utility executives, they are quite happy to have her present programs on time management, communications, negotiation, and...

Retail power markets progressing.(industry report)
July 1, 2004... Since 2002 U.S. competitive electric retail markets have processed rapidly, particularly among the commercial and industrial sector. Although the process varies widely among states, the total amount of peak load nationwide that switched to...

Deregulation increases cash flow, profitability.(industry report)
July 1, 2004... One of the major hot issues of the last few years has been "Is deregulation working?" Deregulation of the electric utility industry marked a fork in the road for many companies, and in most of the states where it has been implemented, is far...

The growing pains of utility asset accounting.(finance)
July 1, 2004... Utility asset accounting is in a state of flux that deserves understanding. The Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants recently submitted a proposed statement of position (SOP)...

Exclusive C Three equity index: composite energy continues to outpace S&P 500.(Finance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The C Three Group's composite energy utility index continues to lead the S&P 500 for 2004, up 5.5 percent vs. 2.6 percent for the S&P. The C Three LDC Index leads all other C Three indices, posting a 9.2 percent gain so far in 2004 (up 18.3...

Executive spotlight.(Enspiria Solutions, Inc.)
July 1, 2004... COMPANY PROFILE Enspiria Solutions, Inc.--an Osmose Company, provides consulting, systems integration, data and technology solutions to transmission and distribution utilities worldwide. Enspiria's All Wheel Drive Utility[TM] offers...

The future of CIS.(it/cis/crm)(customer information systems )
July 1, 2004... The walls around today's customer information systems (CIS) are about to explode. When the dust clears, utilities will no longer take a single-system, single-function view of software applications. They'll be looking instead at entire...

keys to keeping spam in the dark.(it/cis/crm)
July 1, 2004... As head of IT for a major southwestern utility company that provides natural gas and electricity for more than 1.3 million New Mexicans, top of mind for me is ensuring that our information technology keeps our organization productive, efficient...

Modular substations: breaking the industry mold.(transmission & distribution)
July 1, 2004... With the utility industry in the middle of a market transformation, reliability and cost-effectiveness are two major factors affecting the future of utility transmission design and implementation. Some vendors contend that the traditional...

Diversification fuels JEA's reputation.(generation)
July 1, 2004... Over the last eight years, JEA has made a $1 billion investment in efficient, clean new power generation, at the same time receiving broad community support for its efforts. The utility has successfully added natural gas, coal, petroleum coke,...

Diversification: big word, big results San Antonio.(generation)
July 1, 2004... "Diversification" is a big word that wasn't in the City Public Service (CPS) vocabulary before the 1970s. CPS, the nation's largest municipally-owned energy, company providing both natural gas and electric service, relied on plentiful,...

Coping with change.(management methods)
July 1, 2004... It's hard to adjust to change, for we are all the willing victims of inertia. We feel comfortable with the status quo because we're used to it. If something new (technologies, government regulations, reorganizations, etc.) comes along that...

Improving your interviewing.(management methods)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... With the best of intentions, as an interviewer you can be prejudiced for an attractive member of the opposite sex, against someone who reminds you of your least favorite in-law. Lack of objectivity can sometimes be subtle. For instance,...

4 common errors in giving instructions.(management methods)
July 1, 2004... * Giving too many instructions at one time. * Failing to make sure that instructions are understood * Putting too many "don'ts" in instructions instead of stating things more positively. * Giving an insufficient number of...

The positive power of reward.(management methods)
July 1, 2004... In a now classic experiment conducted by the psychology department of Columbia University, a group of volunteers had one-pound weights suspended from their index fingers. They were instructed to crook the finger, thus lifting the weight, for as...

Events.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... August 28-Sept. 3 : World Renewable Energy Congress DOE's NREL www.nrel.gov/wrec Denver September 5-9 : 19th World Energy Congress & Exhibition World Energy Council (+61/2/9284-0800) ...

New Energy Associates.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... New Energy Associates has appointed Deane Price president. William McCarrick, Jr. joined as vice president, sales.

Allegheny Energy.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Mike Adams is vice president, quality for Allegheny Energy.

Midwest ISO.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Midwest ISO has hired John R. Bear to serve as the organization's first chief operating officer (COO). As senior vice president and COO, he will be responsible for all operations, engineering and information technology functions within the ISO....

Schneider Electric.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Chris Richardson has been appointed to the board of directors of Schneider Electric.

Xcel Energy.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Doug Jaeger has replaced Mary Fisher as vice president of transmission at Xcel Energy.

American Public Power Association.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Jan Schori, general manager for Sacramento, Calif., Municipal Utility District was named chair of the board of directors of the American Public Power Association at the group's annual conference this summer. William Gallagher general manager,...

Electric Power Research Institute.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Michael Miller has replaced Stanley Sussman as vice president for the environment sector at the Electric Power Research Institute. Sussman has retired.

Georgia Transmission Corp.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Georgia Transmission Corp. has selected Harold Taylor as vice president of system performance mad Russell Schussler as vice president of system planning.

American Electric Power.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Stephan Haynes has been named vice president of corporate finance for American Electric Power.

Sempra Energy.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Sempra Energy has elected Donald Felsinger president and chief operating officer, as well as to its board of directors.

Survey respondents to questions on the global electricity market believe that reform efforts will provide benefits.(notes)
July 1, 2004... Survey respondents to questions on the global electricity market believe that reform efforts will provide benefits, including lower prices, but are less optimistic about electricity industry reform compared to a year ago. (Source: PA Consulting...

A majority of energy and utility sector executives (67 percent) feel that the amount of data in their organizations' IT systems is overwhelming.(notes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A majority of energy and utility sector executives (67 percent) feel that the amount of data in their organizations' IT systems is overwhelming. Nine out often of those same executives believe that more than half of all available data is not...

The North American AMR market has surpassed the $1 billion mark and should continue to grow.(notes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The North American AMR market has surpassed the $1 billion mark and should continue to grow. Sales data indicates that 11.8 million AMR units were sold in 2003. (Source: Wiglaf LLC)